102 Metaphor Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

A selection of metaphor quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

1 No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.

Pat Morita as The Emperor Of China in Mulan (1998)

2 You put that heavy bag with eyeballs in the ring with me, and you're gonna see the meaning of pain.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky IV (1985)

3 Doesn't it give you kind of a shudder of electricity through you to be in the same room with me?

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)

4 Everything complicated. One big medieval mess.

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

5 This city's got a beat. You gotta hook into it. And once you got the beat, you can do anything.

Billy Joel as Dodger in Oliver & Company (1988)

6 Well, I might be old, but I still got a spring in my step.

Blake Clark as Slinky Dog in Toy Story 3

7 You know who I am? In the field of local live home entertainment, I'm a God!

Mike Starr as Pooter The Clown in Uncle Buck (1989)

8 You're a riddle with no cheese to maze through.

Nick Nolte as Four Leaf Tayback in Tropic Thunder (2008)

9 A man grows what he can, then he tends it. Because what you buy is what you own. And what you own always comes home to you.

Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall in Pet Sematary (1989)

10 Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid